[ltp] iwl4965: Could not read microcode: -2

[Haines Brown]

I'm totally inexperienced with laptops and with wireless, and so
presume I'm missing something obvious. This is a new installation of
sidux on X61s, and so far, all's well. I have the laptop plugged into
my disktop machine's router, and so have internet access.

During boot, the wirless chip is seen, but it seems the module can't
initialize it.

  $ dmesg |  | grep 4965
  iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.1.17ks
  iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
  iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
  iwl4965: iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode firmwre file req failed: Reason -2
  iwl4965: Could not read microcode: -2
  iwl4965: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -2
  
Searching on line suggests that this means the driver failed to
initialize the chip and there is a wide range of possible reasons.

  $ lspci
  ...
  03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965
  	AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)

  $ lsmod | grep 3945
  iwl3545   	 91624  0
  mac30211      134412  2  iwl3945,iwl4965

  # iwconfig
  lo         no wireless extensions
  eth0	     no wireless extensions

Haines Brown